DJ Jazzy Jeff Shares His COVID-19 Scare With Will Smith

DJ Jazzy Jeff opened up about his recent bout with COVID-19 in a conversation with his old friend Will Smith. Jeff detailed his symptoms and revealed he completely lost track of time while he was sick.

“I came home from my trip and was like, ‘I feel like I’m coming down with something,'” he explained. “And [I] got it in the bed; don’t remember the next 10 days. I had a temperature that reached about 103 [degrees]. I had the chills. I lost sense of smell. I lost sense of taste. They gave me a flu test.”

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Smith was taken aback by the veteran DJ’s inability to get tested for the coronavirus. Yet Jeff knew something was wrong and soon learned he was suffering from severe pneumonia, which has been caused by some cases of COVID-19.

“When I went and got the chest x-ray, she came in and she said, ‘You have pneumonia in both your lungs,” he told his Fresh Prince partner.